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Aspasia
(b. circa 470 B.C., Miletus, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey); d. circa 410 B.C., location unknown)Aspasia of Miletus was a scholar and philosopher whose intellectual influence distinguished her in Athenian culture, which treated women as second-class citizens during the 5th century B.C. She used her... Read more
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